Ilya Sorokin struggles again as Islanders drop fifth straight game
NY Post
A day that started with Islanders coach Patrick Roy acknowledging Ilya Sorokin could be playing better turned into a full-blown catastrophe when Sorokin let up three goals during the first period of a shambolic 4-1 loss to the Hurricanes at UBS Arena.
“Yeah, I’m not 100 percent pleased with him,” Roy said Tuesday morning. “It’s obvious. And I’m sure he’s not himself.”
While far from a full-throated rip-job, that amounted to the toughest criticism a coach has publicly levied on Sorokin in recent memory.
And because it comes from someone with Roy’s standing as a Hall of Fame goaltender, there was added weight.
“I don’t read news,” Sorokin said after the loss, asked about the comment. “So I try to do my best. I try every day. Come to practice and try to do my best.”
After the Islanders played the first few minutes on the front foot, showing energy and initiative that had been missing from Sunday’s 5-2 loss at the Garden to the Rangers, Sorokin let in a soft goal when Seth Jarvis’ slow-rolling shot from in front of the right post squeaked through his pads.
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